Fin by Intercom vs. Oracle Service

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fin by Intercom
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Fin is Intercom’s AI Agent for customer service, designed to deliver high-quality answers, even for complex queries. It works with any helpdesk, or it can be paired with Intercom’s next-generation Helpdesk to get the full Intercom Customer Service Suite.
$0.99
one-time fee per 1 resolution
Oracle Service
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Service is the help desk and customer experience management platform from Oracle. The technology was developed and supported by RightNow Technologies as RightNow CX for cloud-based call center automation, until that company's acquisition by Oracle in 2011 for about $1.5 billion.N/A
Pricing
Fin by IntercomOracle Service
Editions & Modules
Fin with your current helpdesk
$0.99
one-time fee per 1 resolution
Copilot add-on
$35
per month per user
The Early Stage program
$65
per month (6 support seats)
Proactive Support Plus add-on
$99
per month
Fin with Intercom’s Helpdesk
from $39 + $0.99 per Fin resolution
per month per seat
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Fin by IntercomOracle Service
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFin comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Here's how it works: Use Fin in at least 250 conversations within the first 90 days after trial. If you're not satisfied, you can request a refund of up to $1M. Refund requests must be submitted within 90 days of starting the subscription.
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Community Pulse
Fin by IntercomOracle Service
Features
Fin by IntercomOracle Service
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Fin by Intercom
-
Ratings
Oracle Service
7.7
78 Ratings
7% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings7.973 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings7.053 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.057 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.050 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.174 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Fin by Intercom
-
Ratings
Oracle Service
7.0
74 Ratings
14% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings6.065 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Fin by Intercom
-
Ratings
Oracle Service
8.0
76 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.069 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.035 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.046 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings8.074 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.054 Ratings
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User Ratings
Fin by IntercomOracle Service
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(376 ratings)
8.8
(89 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(21 ratings)
10.0
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(285 ratings)
6.0
(5 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.8
(10 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.7
(5 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(11 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Fin by IntercomOracle Service
Likelihood to Recommend
Intercom
It's great for growing companies who need to provide support to their customers or users. We recommend it all the time. If you have frequently asked questions, you can get your customers quick answers without keeping them far away from human support.
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Oracle
Oracle Right (Oracle Service Cloud) was an important evolution in the group's ombudsman channel management processes. We brought the Oracle Service Cloud to digitize the processes for capturing and managing the group's ombudsman channel, no longer operating manually (MS Excel).

Oracle Service Cloud (Right Now) brought about an important evolution in the management processes of the group's ombudsman channel, where activities that were performed manually, repetitively and with risk of errors, are now operated by the Right Now platform itself, whether by API, or by automation of the tool.
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Pros
Intercom
  • The ability to control who and where Fin engages through Workflows.
  • It can be a one-size-fits-all for your volume, or you can control the audience/topics that Fin will be active in.
  • Pricing is negotiable, and while you contract to a minimum, there aren't severe penalties for overages.
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Oracle
  • We can access the best-in-class features for cross-channel contact center management amd field service management.
  • It provides a great way to mobilize agents and boost collaboration within the office which in turn improves the overall customer experience.
  • Automation of back of the office repetitive tasks leading to a faster way of addressing customer concerns.
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Cons
Intercom
  • Customizing Fin by Intercom's escalation paths could be easier (ex. if there are some inquiries we don't want passed to the human team)
  • Reporting on conversations handled to completion by Fin by Intercom (not just those that are marked as "resolved")
  • It would be helpful to be able to indicate to Fin by Intercom when an answer is wrong, or train it on things that it shouldn't do (not only what it should do)
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Oracle
  • Oracle Service Cloud needs a better built in integration with Oracle Social Cloud or it needs to build in more Social network capabilities.
  • SMS is handle via a third party application but could be built in as part of the product.
  • The knowledge foundation product needs a better way to handle multiple languages. Currently you have to purchase an additional interface for each language. You can purchase the more expensive Knowledge Advance which does have a better language feature.
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Likelihood to Renew
Intercom
We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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Oracle
Although RightNow is extremely flexible, the flexibility comes with a price. It is often not intuitive which settings you need to change (and under which menus these setting are buried) to enable the system to do what you want. Also, sometimes the system can do things you need, but you don't initially realize it. When RightNow sells a system to a new customer, I think it should come with X hours of consulting time with a RightNow expert. The customer should be able to consult with this expert over the next year to get advice concerning how to configure the system to achieve desired needs. Often RightNow Support would just answer "no" when I asked if I could do something, but then I would find another way to achieve my goals after talking with other companies using RightNow.
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Usability
Intercom
FIN is extremely capable and the UI is very intuitive. There are some things that involve using Data Connectors - for example there's a FIN workflow for when a customer creates a ticket but it doesn't give you access to the Ticket ID. You have to create a data connector to fetch that data - just seems a little convoluted.
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Oracle
The learning curve is fairly steep; but for something that has this much capability, it's nearly impossible to make it "easy". The layout and organization are at least reasonably intuitive. The hardest part-- the "weakest link"-- is the portal development (where you can build help centers and other end-user pages.) The capabilities there are significant, but the learning curve for that part is especially steep and it takes a fair amount of expertise to be able to update it.
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Reliability and Availability
Intercom
always there
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Oracle
We have never had issues with downtime or it not being available. Upgrades and maintenance also happens in weekends or at night.
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Performance
Intercom
works perfect
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Oracle
We use a lot of tabs and fields on our incident workspace, which should slow the system down, but it's still quite fast, and we continue to optimize whatever is possible.
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Support Rating
Intercom
Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.
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Oracle
Technicians seem to be assessed based solely on how quickly they close the issues. I've had to reopen requests multiple times because they didn't actually solve my problem. Also, when the issue has even a moderate amount of complexity, the technicians often instruct me to "open another SR" to handle the other issue. I'm the customer, I shouldn't have to follow their processes, they should handle that for me. But even when I create the new SR, it seems like their right hand isn't talking to their left - they aren't reading back to the previous issue for context. So I get bounced around a lot, and I have to tell them how to do their job
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In-Person Training
Intercom
No answers on this topic
Oracle
Most of our training was given while doing user acceptance testing, and getting the system approved by the market. When ever we were in doubt, our implementer helped us along. Later on we started exploring by our selves.
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Online Training
Intercom
Easy to know the learning path
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Oracle
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Intercom
The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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Oracle
Work with a RightNow expert during the implementation. Explain features that would you like to have. Often, somebody who really knows the system can show you what you need to do to achieve the desired results. Where a RightNow support engineer or a consultant might say "the system can't do that," a RightNow application engineer will listen to what you need, and often come up with an alternate path to achieve it
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Alternatives Considered
Intercom
Fin by Intercom definitely knows our platform better and can have more value by recommending content by following along with our conversations. ChatGPT is more supplemental and better at learning our voices and tones to make conversations sound like us. ChatGPT is also helpful when it's not specific to our business.
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Oracle
TCS' customers who also selected Oracle Service Cloud over Salesforce Service Cloud and GE's ServiceMax in the Mfg. vertical in which I work, did so because of the robust ability of Oracle Service Cloud and its APIs to integrate with other value-add solutions for manufacturers such as IoT applications, Big Data Analytics, and Field Service applications.
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Scalability
Intercom
No answers on this topic
Oracle
We have never had any down time, slowness or anything. Any error or instability that has occurrred has so far has been caused by user errors.
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Return on Investment
Intercom
  • I like how I don't feel like I need to constantly be monitoring support, especially on weekends
  • It's great that the user will get some response right away, I just need to hope that the response they do get is good enough if I'm awk
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Oracle
  • Since its, it has significantly reduced our training time of new agents. What used to take 6 weeks in the class room, went to 4 weeks.
  • Service Cloud allows us to easily gather data to report to the other departments quickly.
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ScreenShots

Fin by Intercom Screenshots

Screenshot of Fin, delivering conversational support experience to customers.Screenshot of where to monitor, analyze, and optimize Fin by spotting trends, filling content gaps, and fixing quality issues topic by topic.Screenshot of where to customize Fin's tone of voice, teach it support knowledge and policies, and configure how it handles complex tasks in over 45 languages.Screenshot of where to test answers, review the sources and settings that shape them, and get tailored recommendations to optimize performance.Screenshot of Fin, as it appears across email and live chat to phone, SMS, and social. Fin can answer any question, across any channel, any time.

Oracle Service Screenshots

Screenshot of A pixel-perfect Customer Portal organizes self-service content in a way that makes sense to your customers.Screenshot of Customers can search, email, chat, and call your business from their mobile devices for immediate resolution.Screenshot of Bring omnichannel interactions together into an intuitive, unified agent desktop.Screenshot of A fully integrated knowledge solution is the backbone of all seamless and consistent service experiences.Screenshot of Tailor customer experiences with contextualized and personalized service using dynamic interviews.Screenshot of Predictive forecasting tools increase field service operational efficiencies to ensure timely job completion.